Secure a hire
Filling a management role in an energy company, a hospital or a public utility: few candidates on the Valais market, which makes the assessment of internal potential all the more decisive.
Assessment · in the canton of Valais
Assessment in the canton of Valais
Secure a personnel decision in a canton where there are few openings, scarce skills and teams often spread over several sites.
Working in the canton of Valais
The canton of Valais lives on hydropower, healthcare, viticulture and alpine tourism, with family firms and institutions spread across several valleys. Sion, Martigny, Sierre, Monthey and Brig do not operate in the same way: the canton is bilingual, and a manager often works at a distance from their teams, inside a network of local actors where close relationships matter.
Most common working languages in the canton of Valais: French in Romand Valais, German in Upper Valais.
Assessment in the canton of Valais: what we secure
Clarify a promotion or internal move
Succession in a family business or a wine estate: verifying how prepared the successor is and which skills must still be developed, beyond the legitimacy of the handover.
Build a development plan
Assessing an operations manager who leads teams across several sites, at a distance and in two regional languages.
Assessment Valais: where we intervene
We work in the cities below and cover the whole canton of Valais.
Assessment in other cantons
The same support, adapted to each canton's economic fabric.
Assessment Valais: why choose SHR
An Assessment Valais run by SHR serves a decision first: hiring, promotion, succession or a development plan. Every Assessment Valais is built from the actual role, your culture and the local business context, not from a standard test battery.
Our Assessment Valais combines a structured interview, role-close exercises and, where relevant, validated psychometric questionnaires, so each competency is observed from several angles and the conclusions of the Assessment Valais are sturdier than a single interview.
Organisations that commission an Assessment Valais receive a reasoned report, a debrief for the decision-maker and individual feedback for the person assessed. A well-run Assessment Valais leaves something useful whatever the outcome.
The Assessment Valais can take place on your premises, at a neutral local venue or partly online. To organise an Assessment Valais, simply describe the role and timing and we will propose a suitable design.
How an SHR assessment works — Assessment Valais
A serious assessment does not start with a test but with a question: which decision is it meant to inform? Hiring, promotion, succession and development reviews call for different exercises and different reports, so every design starts from the actual role.
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Role definition
A conversation with leadership and HR to turn the role into four to six observable competencies, with examples of expected behaviour in your context rather than a generic framework.
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Method selection
Structured interviews on real past situations, work-sample exercises close to the role (in-tray, difficult conversation, board presentation) and, where justified, validated psychometric questionnaires. Each competency is observed through at least two methods.
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Assessment day
Candidates are told how the day runs and how results will be used. Observations are rated independently, then compared in an integration session to limit halo effects and first-impression bias.
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Feedback
A written report and a debrief with the decision-maker, followed by individual feedback to the person assessed, who leaves with concrete development points whatever the decision.
What you receive
- A competency profile backed by observed behaviour, not impressions
- Strengths to build on and risks to watch in the first six months
- An explicit recommendation and its conditions
- A development plan ready for onboarding or coaching
What an assessment does not do
It does not predict the future with certainty and does not replace your judgement: it reduces uncertainty on specific competencies. Nor is it a way to justify a decision already taken — if that is the request, we will say so in the first conversation.
Standards we rely on
Our designs follow international guidelines on assessment centres and test use: role-based competencies, multiple methods, trained assessors and informed candidates. Recent research on predictive validity confirms that structured interviews and work-sample exercises are among the most reliable methods. Personal data is handled under Switzerland’s revised Federal Act on Data Protection, in force since 1 September 2023.
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- International Test Commission (2001). International Guidelines for Test Use. International Journal of Testing, 1(2), 93–114.
- Sackett, P. R., Zhang, C., Berry, C. M., & Lievens, F. (2022). Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(11), 2040–2068.
Frequently asked questions — assessment in the canton of Valais
Do your assessments cover Upper Valais?
Yes. We work in Sion, Martigny, Sierre, Monthey, Brig and Visp, in French or in German, according to the working language of the role being assessed.
Can an assessment be conducted entirely remotely?
Some interviews can take place by videoconference, but the simulations and the observation gain a great deal from taking place on site, in the real context of the role.
How long does an assessment in the canton of Valais take?
Half a day to a full day of observation depending on the level of responsibility, then analysis and feedback. The written report is delivered within about a week.
In which languages is an assessment run in the canton of Valais?
In your team's working language: French in Romand Valais, German in Upper Valais are the most common in the canton of Valais. Italian is available on request.
A personnel decision to objectify in the canton of Valais?
Describe the situation in a few lines: we call you back to frame the request and propose a method suited to it.
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